Russia Says It Has Billions Of Indian Rupees That It Can’t Use

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in India’s western state of Goa that it has billions of Indian rupees that it can't use.

Russia has accumulated billions of rupees in Indian banks which it can’t use, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday, pointing to a ballooning trade surplus with the South Asian nation.

“This is a problem,” Lavrov told reporters in India’s western state of Goa on the sidelines of...

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